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J. S. MOODY.

CARD PRINTING MACHINE.

Patented Dec. 1', 1857 srA'rEs PATENT OFFICE.

{LADIES S. MOODY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO '1. F. RANDOLPH ANDJ. F. RANDOLPH, OF SAME PLACE.

CARD-PRINTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 18,795, dated December 1, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES S. MOODY, of the city of Cincinnati, county ofHamilton, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Card-Printing Machines; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings and to the letters of ref erence marked thereonand made to form part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to like parts of the improvement.

I am aware of machines or presses having been made for printing cards byhand, and made so as to be self acting in their parts; but theirstructure has been such as to render them liable to get out of order,owing to defective arrangement of the parts composing the machine.

The nature of my improvement consists in the arrangement of the parts ofthe machin ery, by which the necessary movements of it are renderedcertain and effective, and not liable to derangement in supplying theblank cards to the machine, properly distributing and inking the formmaking the impression and discharging the card from i the machine afterbeing printed.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my improvement, Iwill proceed to describe its construction and operation, by referringdirect to the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 represents a sideelevation of the machine. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional elevationof the machine. Fig. 3 is a top view of the machine. Fig. 4 is a portionof the machine, showing a spring connected with the external portion ofthe card box for holding the card to its proper position when beingplaced between the form and platen of the press. Figs. 5 and 6 aredifferent views of the plate employed to feed the card from the box inbetween the form and platen.

a, a, represents the base piece of the machine, commonly made of wood towhich the frame piece (B, B) are attached as represented, consisting oftwo standards with a piece B, attached to their top, and made to serveas the platen of the press.

R, R, are levers made to carry the ink rollers m, m, and distributingroller (0) and k, is a spiral spring, the lower end of which is attachedto the base piece a, a, and the upper end to the levers R, R, fordrawing the ink rollers down on the distributing plate f, and form (03),which form is placed in the end of the arm (0) the lower part of whicharm forks out on each side and is furnished with a shaft 10, that worksin and between the two uprights at their lower end, and is operated bythe lever h, which is attached to the shaft 10, at the lower part of thearm 0, as represented, and by depressing the outer end of the leverwhich elevates the inner end and the arm 0, with it, by resting on thefulcrum 13, which causes the arm 0, to rise vertically, and brings theform (d) against the platen B by ha"- ing the hearings in which theshaft 10 works in the frame pieces B, B, made oblong, so as to admit ofa vertical movement of the arm 0, sufiicient to make the impression orprint the card.

J, is a spring one end of which is attached to the lever (h) and theother to the arm 0, for the purpose of drawing the arm 0, to its propervertical position before commencing to make the impression, and holdingit during the time of making the impression; the plate 12, attached tothe form case, will always be drawn against the sides of the uprights B,on each side of the press, which serve as a guide to the movement givento the arm 0, when making an impression to prevent blurring or otherwisedefacing the print by any lateral motion of the form on the end of thearm 0.

9, represents the blank card case, and provided with a weight g, topress the cards down compactly when being fed to the machine, so thatthe feeding apparatus will more readily take hold of a card.

w, 00, are guides attached to the under part of the platen B betweenwhich guides the blank cards are shoved by the plate S, with the actionof the rods y, y, which rods are attached to the top of the arm 0, andas the arm is thrown down to ink the form (d) the plate S, is drawnforward by the rods y, 3 with it, and the plate is furnished withprojections 14:, on its surface on each side that takes hold of theblank card in the case 9, and forces it under the platen B and as theblank is being forced under the platen it forces out the card that hasbeen printed into the duct and from thence it is carried off to one sideof the machine, the whole being effected by the arrangement of the partsof the machine, and action given to it by the lever n is an angularplate, attached to and projecting out from the end of the arm (0) forshoving the feeding plate S, back to force another card under the platenB, the plate S being provided with an angular piece similar to the oneattached to the arm 0, against which the plate (n) strikes in forcingthe plate S, back to bring another card under the platen.

o, and 'w, are springs attached to-the outside of the card case 9, andused for guiding the cards from the case under the platen B and betweenthe guide pieces 00, w, by having the lower ends of the spring 1), topress lightly on the top of the card as it is being shoved from the cardcase under the platen B.

8, is a guard to prevent the feeding plate S from being shoved too farout from under the card case 9. V

For properly holding and adjusting the platen B, the center screws 16,screw into the uprights B, B, as represented in Fig. 1, for holding theplaten down while the side screws 17, 17, on each side screw against thetop of the frame pieces B, and are employed in combination with thecenter screws for adjusting the platen to the form What I claim as myimprovement, and

desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement of the arms 0, when provided with the form d,distributing plate f,

rods y), feed plate S, duct (i) guide plate (12) spring (J) and lever h,and these arranged with the levers R, R, and spring (Ia), when saidlevers are furnished withink rolls m, m, and distributing rolls (0) andthe whole arranged with thevertical oblong openings in the lower part ofthe frames B, B, in which the shaft 10, works to admit of the arm 0,being raised vertically to make an impression by pressing down the endof the lever h, on the fulcrum (13'), and thus elevating the arm 0, asbefore stated the whole thus combined, arranged, constructed, andoperated as represented in the manner and for the purposes of feedingblank cards to the machine, inking the form, making the impression, anddischarging the card from the machine after being printed as specifiedin the foregoing specification, and represented in the accompanyingdrawings.

' j JAMES S. MOODY.

Witnesses:

W. BENSON, CHARLES H. Fox.

